Appointments, honors and activities

November 30, 2012

• Faculty and staff honors:

- Purdue associate professor of botany and plant pathology
Kiersten Wise is part of a team of scientists from agricultural experiment
stations at land-grant universities that received the 2012 Experiment Station
Section Award of Excellence in Multistate Research. The team was selected for
its work in identifying management strategies for soybean rust, a fungal
disease that poses a serious threat to U.S. soybean production. For the past
five years, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Association
of Public and Land-Grant Universities have presented this award in recognition
of successful, well-coordinated, high-impact research and Extension efforts.
The team, of which Wise is committee chair, was honored at the Annual APLU
Awards Program in Denver on Nov. 11. The group also was recognized for
innovative research on disease-resistant soybean varieties, which will provide
more environmentally and economically sustainable long-term disease management.

- Marcus Rogers, professor of computer and information
technology and CERIAS fellow, has been named the recipient of the Digital and
Multimedia Sciences Section of the AAFS Outstanding Research Award. AAFS is the
American Association of Forensic Sciences - the major professional association
of investigators across all types of investigations. The award will be
presented in 2013 at the annual AAFS meeting. Rogers is an internationally
recognized expert in digital investigation techniques and cybercrime. He works
with CERIAS personnel and students on advanced research topics and
certification as a national center of excellence.

- Antwione Haywood, senior assistant director and
coordinator of assessment, evaluation and communications in Student Success at
Purdue, has received the 2012 Joseph P. Cangemi Dissertation Award from the
Indiana University School of Education. The award is given to doctoral
graduates in the IU School of Education, the Higher Education and Student
Affairs program "who have completed an outstanding dissertation on the
topic of leadership or a topic dealing closely with leadership and
organizational behavior." Haywood successfully defended his dissertation
earlier this year. The topic was "Model I & II Organizations: Examining
Organizational Learning in Institutions Participating in the Academy for the
Assessment of Student Learning."

- Bradley Lucier, professor of computer science and
mathematics, has been named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in
recognition of his contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement,
communication and utilization of mathematics.

- Tony Hosking and Ninghui Li, associate professors of
computer science, were named 2013 Distinguished Scientists by the Association
for Computing Machinery in recognition of their research accomplishments and
contributions in computing. This distinction is the second highest level of
distinction given by the association and less than 10 percent of members
receive it.

• Alumni honors:

- Computer Science alumnus Stuart H. Zweben received the
2012 Linton E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award from ABET, the recognized
accreditor for college and university programs in applied science, computing,
engineering and engineering technology. Zweben is a professor emeritus at The
Ohio State University and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue
in 1971 and 1974, respectively. Zweben has been involved in computing program
accreditation since its onset and played a key role in the formation of the computing
sciences accreditation board. More information is available at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/news/11-15-12_Zweben.html

• Student honors:

- Mohamed Yakout received the Donald Ballou & Harold
Pazar IQ Dissertation Award for his dissertation "Guided Data Cleaning."
The award recognizes the dissertation that demonstrates the most significant
contribution to the field of information quality. Yakout earned his doctoral
degree in computer science in August and now works with Microsoft Bing.